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TIL in 1999, Macromedia hired Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame to create 39 animated shorts to showcase its "Shockwave" player. The result was "Princess". Parker and Stone never heard back after submitting the first two episodes. Here's the first episode (very NSFW).

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